Re: tool and worktree

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Feb 8, 2009, 19:25 UTC
Message-ID: <20090208192528.GC30557@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090208034406.GB7230@b2j>

bill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com> wrote:

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> I track /etc using a config
> 
> [core]
> 	repositoryformatversion = 0
> 	filemode = true
> 	bare = false
> 	worktree = /etc
> 	logAllRefUpdates = true
> 	excludesfile =
> 
> But that can not be handled by tools,
> 
> git gui : cannot use funny .git directory .

If someone sends patches for git-gui, maybe. This use case of different repository and worktree isn't very common for git-gui so it doesn't support it.

On Windows with some versions of Tcl/Tk I've had trouble in the past with Git finding the repository when forked out of the wish process. To work around it I just required that the repository be in ".git".

Have you tried making /etc/.git a symlink to the real repository?

BTW, tracking /etc/ in git won't track permissions and ownership so restoring /etc from git isn't enough on its own. Usually I use some sort of shell script to copy /etc to another location and check it into git, and a different script to go the other way, with that script handling mode and ownership as it goes.

-- 
Shawn.